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Financing development goals in times of crisisPursuing the global development agenda will require genuine commitment from political leaders and significant stepping-up of government efforts. But...
Antonio Savoia
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow
Dr Savoia is a Reader in development economics at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute. His research has looked at the determinants of governance and institutional performance and how they impinge on development outcomes and policies.
As a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Dr Savoia is currently engaged in the UNU-WIDER project The political economy of taxation.
He has worked at the University of Exeter, the University of Reading, the Università di Salerno, and the University of Bath.
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Will a revenue boom support development in resource-rich economies?The post-COVID-19 economic recovery and Russia’s war with Ukraine have caused some natural resource prices to reach new highs. Although forecasting...
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What determines tax revenues mobilization?
Tax revenues and political institutions placing constraints on the executive power may reinforce each other over time and this may also bring a shift...
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Fiscal states in developing economies: Why do they matter and where do they come from?Modern states are complex organizations which perform a broad range of functions. They have an important role in economic and human development. The...
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Do resource rich economies have better or worse human development outcomes?Although increasingly challenged, we often hear that being resource rich can adversely affect growth prospects. Here we concentrate instead on a...
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How can developing countries pay for the SDGs?With official development assistance under strain, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require developing countries to rely increasingly...
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How can developing countries deliver effective public financial planning?In many less developed countries, there is little problem identifying the need for public investment in programmes aimed at improving things such as...
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Developing countries would benefit from improved tax collection: What can help?The ability to raise revenues from taxes – called “fiscal capacity” – is a crucial aspect for the functioning of any state. Being able to tax citizens...
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South Asia: how to ensure progress on reducing poverty isn't reversed by coronavirusSouth Asia accounted for nearly two-fifths of the world’s poor, nearly half of the world’s malnourished children and was home to the largest number of...
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